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The Sushi Bandit

(5,560 posts)
Fri Nov 4, 2016, 07:00 PM Nov 2016

Pipeline Protest Reporter Shot With Rubber Bullet Mid-Interview [View all]

Source: Huffington Post

Footage taken during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota Wednesday appears to show a rubber bullet hitting a journalist in the back as she conducted an interview.

Erin Schrode, an activist and congressional candidate in California, posted a video on Facebook Thursday that shows her interviewing a Native American man, then suddenly falling to the ground as people rush to surround her in concern. She wrote that law enforcement shot her in the lower back with a rubber bullet, though neither the act nor the bullet can be seen on camera.

“I was shot by militarized police WHILE interviewing a peaceful man at Standing Rock live on camera,” she wrote.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/erin-schrode-pipeline-shot-standing-rock_us_581bb038e4b0e80b02c8d81f

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Obama needs to stop this NOW! sinkingfeeling Nov 2016 #1
I didn't know Obama was in rural ND uppityperson Nov 2016 #4
How is it DK504 Nov 2016 #2
The state is doing the stealing... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2016 #3
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